Late on Friday night Masao informed me that we had a photo shoot at 10am Saturday morning - in our BATHTUB.
Photographer Hal, known for his saucy shots of Japanese couples in the Pinky & Killer DX Book, rocked in early with his compact bag of image capturing gadgets. After a quick rummage through my costume boxes, Masao and I were dressed, made up and wedged tightly together in our tiny Japanese bath tub. This was our view...
you will have to wait for the next book coming out in August to see what Photographer Hal saw.
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In order to emerge and capture love of the “couple”, I used to corner the models in small and enclosed room in my earlier exploration. However, extending this idea to the extreme, I now place them in a bathtub of their house.
The bathroom is the most private place in the house for most couples, and they feel shy about it. That is why it is so inspiring!!
Bathtub is an ideal vessel to hold a couple. I compress the couple into the bottom of a bathtub and ask them to express themselves. It is like high school girls in Tokyo taking self-portraits in an instant photo sticker machine booth, “print club”!! Intensity of vivid color, like highly boiled jam, provides tonality best suited for the photograph. I regard this to be a microcosm of intensified energy.
The work is now in progress - Couples (tentative) series.
Taken from Photographer Hal's website.
